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*Psalm 23:* *1 *The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want.
*2 *He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, *3 *he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
*4 *Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
*5 *You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
*6 *Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
NIV Message version
* *The Lord is my shepherd*
* *The Lord* (God)
* Pastor Jerry is an under shepherd not the true shepherd 1 Pet 5:2-4
* Or the World?
* Who is calling the shots in your life?
* The newspapers, popular opinion, peer pressure, religious practices, our own subjective feelings, the Pastor, your wife or husband, your circumstances…?
* *Is* – present tense, ongoing, alive
* Was?
* *My* – personal, possessive, literal, real, active
* A – One among many?
It doesn’t say (The Lord is *A* shepherd.)
Or mine.
Personal
* Is he *a possession to be treasured*?
Mine! Valuable.
* Literal, real, active
* In order for him to be *MY* Shepherd, I have to be *HIS* Sheep.
* He is mine and I am his
* “My” is not individualistic it’s corporate.
When it comes to sheep” MY” is our.
My fold (Church), my calling (To people) etc…
* MARKING the sheep
* When sheep are brought into the fold the first thing that happens is the sheep is given the mark of the shepherd.
Their ears are usually notched.
* Who are we listening to?
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*Psalm 100:3* Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
NIV
*Rick Warren says in “The Purpose Driven Life”.*
“You were made by God and for God---and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”
* *Shepherd*
* *We need a shepherd*
* For guidance
*Mark 6:34 *When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, *he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd.*
So he began teaching them many things.
NIV
*I had that experience last night as I talked with people that I have never met before.*
*Isaiah 53:6 **We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way*; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
NIV
*John 10:11+14 *“*I am the good shepherd*.
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
*14 *“I am the good shepherd; *I know my sheep and my sheep know me*.
*John 10:27 *My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
NIV
In the next weeks we will look at the benefits, safety and comfort of being under a shepherd.
Pray: Lord so many things are attempting to take the place of your lordship in my life.
It is a war for my heart.
But Lord I want to draw closer to your fold, to re-establish your right as *my* shepherd, to admit my need for a loving shepherd.
*I shall not want(2)*
*Psalm 23:* *1 *The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want.
*2 *He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, *3 *he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
*4 *Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
*5 *You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
*6 *Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
NIV
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* *I shall not want.
(If the Lord is my shepherd)* o *I (what is I?) Am I the sum of my desires?*
*Luke 12:* *22 *Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, *do not worry about your life*, what *you* will eat; or about your body, what *you* will wear.
*23 **Life is more* than food, and the body more than clothes.
NIV (survival)
§ What is life if it is not just survival?
Or self fulfillment?
§ *An I for an I*
· *Are we in danger of trading our selfish lives before Christ for a selfish life with Christ?*
· *Show the video **(ME Church)*
· *LIFE IS MORE!*
*2 Corinthians 5:16 *So we have stopped evaluating others by what the world thinks about them.
Once I mistakenly thought of Christ that way, as though he were merely a human being.
How differently I think about him now! *17 *What this means is that *those who become Christians become new persons.*
They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone.
*A new life* has begun!
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· *Maybe the selfish “I” WILL be in want, but the unselfish one won’t!*
*James 4:* *1 *What causes fights and quarrels among you?
Don’t *they come from your desires that battle within you?* *2 *You *want *something but don’t get it.
You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you *want*.
You quarrel and fight.
*You do not have, because you do not ask God*.
*3 *When you ask, you do not receive, because you *ask with wrong motives*, *that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.*
NIV
* *(I – the new~/real I) shall not want* (I have everything, don’t need anything, have no lack)
*Psalm 34:10 *The lions may grow weak and hungry, *but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.*
NIV (Ps 37:4)
* Will he fulfill all my wants?
* Have we created a Gospel of measuring our closeness with the Shepherd by how much stuff we have?
* Do we rate if we are in the will of God or not by our bank accounts, the car we drive, the size of our house…?
* Can you imagine a sheep loaded down with stuff?
* Sheep are not good pack animals.
I check on the internet if I could find pack sheep.
I found pack goats, but not sheep.
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